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Activists hail Tanzania move to lift ban on pregnant schoolgirls
TANZANIA announced this week the lifting of a controversial ban prohibiting pregnant girls from returning to school, a decision that…
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Tanzania lifts ban on teen mothers attending schools
TANZANIA said on Wednesday it would allow pregnant students and teenaged mothers to continue with their studies, reversing a heavily-criticised…
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Nigeria: Officials indicted in abuses of protesters
A JUDICIAL panel has found that army and police officers shot, injured, and killed unarmed protesters at the Lekki Toll…
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Muslim cleric shot dead after Uganda bombings
SECURITY forces in Uganda have shot dead a Muslim cleric accused of working with an armed group linked to suicide…
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Cote d’Ivoire: Abidjan commuters turn to boats to escape traffic jams
COMMUTERS in Cote d’Ivoire’s bustling commercial capital Abidjan are turning to waterways to escape worsening road traffic, with growing boat…
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Kenyan president sacks top prisons boss over escape of terror convicts
KENYAN President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday sacked top prison commander following the escape of three terror convicts who were serving…
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Ugandan capital hit by twin explosions in ‘attack’
TWO explosions hit Uganda’s capital Kampala on Tuesday, injuring a number of people in what police termed an attack on…
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Ghana parliament begins public hearings on anti-LGBT+ law
GHANA’S parliament is holding its first public hearing Thursday on a new law that would make it illegal to be…
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Boeing agrees to compensate families of victims of Ethiopia 737 MAX crash
BOEING has reached an agreement with the families of victims of the 737 MAX crash that killed 157 people in…
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France officially signs over artworks taken from ex-colony Benin
BENIN’S President Patrice Talon signed an agreement on Tuesday to take back from France 26 artworks seized from the former…
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